Private Project

A Walking Shadow

Genre: Drama / Indie

Setting: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Awards: Top 10 Finalist, 2026 ISA Table Read My Screenplay at Cannes; stage version selected for The Road Theatre Company’s 17th Summer Playwrights Festival

Target Audience: Adults 25-65, fans of socially conscious indie drama, tragicomedy, Shakespeare-inflected stories, and character-driven films about dignity and survival

Comps: The Fisher King (mental illness, myth, and wounded dignity), Nomadland (unhoused community and American survival), King Lear (aging, madness, pride, and performance)

Logline: When a former stage legend living with schizophrenia learns his Albuquerque encampment will be cleared in seven days, he turns his unhoused neighbors into a makeshift theatre company staging King Lear, hoping a legal loophole can save their community before the bulldozers arrive.

  • Ryan Clarke
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Tragicomedy, Drama
  • Number of Pages:
    97
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Table Read My Screenplay - Cannes
    Cannes, France
    March 27, 2026
    Top 10 Finalist
  • The Road Theatre Company’s 17th Summer Playwrights Festival (stageplay version)
    North Hollywood, CA
    June 1, 2026
    SPF17 Winner
Writer - Ryan Clarke